Quotes About Balance

The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard.

Believe me, I want you to have a good time,' he said gently, 'but people who have that primarily in mind rarely accomplish it.

A man who wants time to read and write lets the grass grow long.

Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?

The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would be curious about what I'd write if I didn't have to worry about offending.

There's already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman feels like standing in the lobby of a hotel, looking at the dials depicting every time zone in the world behind the front desk - except they all apply to you, and all at once.

Pure water is the world's first and foremost medicine.

Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home.

Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight-lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.

Equality is about achievement: whoever achieves the most gets treated the most equal.

The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Thiu shouldst eat to live not live to eat

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.

May the inward and outward man be as one.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Thou should eat to live; not live to eat.

Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul, and may the outward and the inner man be at one.